"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"-Thomas Jefferson
Through painful years of authoritarian British government and the weak Articles of Confederation, Americans' hungered for a new form of government. The American leaders, terrified by an autocratic central government like Britain's were in the need of a new administration, which would evenly balance control and freedom. The formation of the Constitution was due to a combination between the Articles and the British government, avoiding the weaknesses, while focusing on the strengths.
American leaders dissatisfied by how the British government was run created a drastically different political system under the Articles of Confederation. …
